
Luke 19:10
Picture yourself in a deep, dark forest. The underbrush is thick making each step a challenge. The trees are massive in height and width, their limbs act as a canopy blocking the sunlight. Day after day after day you have labored trying to find your way out. You are heavy laden and burdened and your soul is restless. You are weary from the darkness and the weight of every plan that you devise to save yourself ending in futility. You are thirsty and your hunger runs deep into the very depths of your soul. You begin to cry out, “Help, I am lost”. Again, with a strained voice, you implore, “Help me I cannot find the way.” Unbeknownst to you, there was one who was sent and he hears your cries. He tells you, “Follow me I know the way.” And so, you turn from the direction you were going and you trust in the one who heard your cry. His way is easy and it leads you out of the darkness of the forest and into the light.
Jesus Christ is the seeker and the Saviour. Jesus Christ is, “The way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6.) Jesus Christ is the light, “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:12.) Spiritually speaking, man is like the lost one in the forest we just read about. Without Jesus Christ as their Saviour, everyone is dead in their trespasses and sins; they are in darkness. Life is not life until one is born again. Praise God that He sent His Son, the Seeker and the Saviour.
We praise God for His immeasurable Gift. We thank God for His mercy and grace that He has poured out on this lost world. Let’s give thought to the days and moments leading up to the wonderful birth of the Lord Jesus. Imagine the anticipation in heaven and the perfect timing of God Almighty. All was in perfect harmony with God’s plan and will. Isaiah's prophecy “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” was near its fulfillment, Micah’s words were about to come to past, “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting”- Caesar Augustus may have thought he was in control, but God had a plan and nothing and no one was going to alter it. All was quiet on that night so many years ago, but the world would soon never be the same.